On 04/25/2018 01:30 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > The simple, obvious means of installing Python in Debian - either > manually, or as a dependency of another package - is via the package > named 'python'. At present, in current testing, doing this will pull in > python2.7 and will not (as far as I can see) pull in anything named > python3*.
It just happen to be the case that the Python 2 package is named "python", when really, it should have been called "python2". Just like python-foo is the Python 2 module package for the "foo" module, and probably it would have been better called "python2-foo". That's probably unfortunate naming, but never the less, there's still no such thing as the "default python interpreter" package in Debian, our users still have to manually choose between 2 and 3. > That is enough to qualify Python 2 as "the Python which will be present > in a default install of Python on Debian", and therefore as "Debian's > default version of Python". No ! See above. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
